Showing posts with label hand reflexology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hand reflexology. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Do you have a longer second toe? The Video
We have been talking about a longer second toe for years. Here is the video version. Enjoy!!!
Much of the world's population have longer second toes. Longer second toes are not a defect rather than are a genetic variant. If we were running around in the wild longer second toes wouldn't be much of a problem. Because of the modernization of the foot's environment with shoes and flat, hard surfaces the longer second toe has caused not only stress to the feet but also to the rest of the body as well.
This video is an explanation of a longer second toe plus some simple, cheap and effective solutions by Barbara and Kevin Kunz., authors of 18 books on reflexology in 20 languages.
Kevin Kunz
http://www.reflexology-research.com
Much of the world's population have longer second toes. Longer second toes are not a defect rather than are a genetic variant. If we were running around in the wild longer second toes wouldn't be much of a problem. Because of the modernization of the foot's environment with shoes and flat, hard surfaces the longer second toe has caused not only stress to the feet but also to the rest of the body as well.
This video is an explanation of a longer second toe plus some simple, cheap and effective solutions by Barbara and Kevin Kunz., authors of 18 books on reflexology in 20 languages.
Kevin Kunz
http://www.reflexology-research.com
Monday, August 2, 2010
this is really cool!!!
DK/ Penguin just turned Interactive Reflexology Charts they produced for our books into widgets. What this means is that you can now download them to use on your website, blog or
Facebook/ MySpace page.
Extremely Cool!!! For an example of how they look try http://www.reflexology-research.com
Kevin Kunz
BTW Try the annotated feature.
this is really cool!!!
DK/ Penguin just turned Interactive Reflexology Charts they produced for our books into widgets. What this means is that
you can now download them to use on your website, blog or
Facebook/ MySpace page.
Extremely Cool!!! For an example of how they look try http://www.reflexology-research.com
Kevin Kunz
BTW Try the annotated feature.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Free Foot and Hand Reflexology Widgets
Widgetbox › Foot Reflexology Widget
Hey!!! DK fixed these reflexology interactive widgets so they are able to be download again. These widgets are incredibly popular. They make a great addition to your website, blog, desktop or Facebook/ MySpace page.
And the best part is that they are free!!! And by clicking on the the lower bar, "Read Your Foot" you are linked to the big interactive charts over on DK. These big interactive charts are also free.
Great way to learn the areas on the feet and hands. Oh yeah here are the hands. http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/hand-reflexology-dkindersley
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Can reflexology help children?
There’s so much to smile about here but also so much to wonder at with the serendipity of it all. This little boy lived in Dallas, some 650 miles from us. The original client lived in Lubbock, Texas some 200 miles from Dallas. Who knew that a bowl of golf balls and an adult using one for a health purpose could help a child—little mimics that they all are—with a health concern unknown to his parents? (This is not so unusual. Children often don’t know how to express such things.) It’s a reminder to us all that our reflexology activities have many and unknown results.
Looking over other stories and research studies, I am reminded of the role of reflexology in helping both a child, suffering from a health concern, and a parent, suffering from concern about the child’s concern. One study showed that crying time for colicy infants was reduced from 90 minutes a day to 30 minutes with reflexology. Another showed that enuresis (involuntary urination or bed wetting) was lessened and still another that encopresis (fecal incontinence) was helped. Then there are the newspaper reports about chronic ear infections, a very painful experience, are helped with reflexology.
Medicine itself offers scant help for any of these common childhood health concerns. One can image coping with these scenes without the help of reflexology: loss of sleep, messy situations and problems with seemingly no solution. In addition, frequently it’s not easy to see that a child to be physically uncomfortable or what’s causing it. For these reasons—as well as the sheer pleasure of spending some quality time with a little one—reflexology and children can bring much more than a smile.
Barbara Kunz
Parent's Guide to Reflexology
Monday, October 26, 2009
Happy 25th Hand and Foot Reflexology!!!
It was October 25, 1984 when Hand and Foot Reflexology, A Self-Help Guide by Barbara and Kevin Kunz was first published and, on October 25, 2009, we celebrate twenty-five years in publication. With twenty-five printings in the U. S. and publication in six languages (English, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian and Hebrew), it has reached thousands over the years. Not many books reach their 25th birthdays—actually, some 90% of all books fail in their first season and never see
a second printing.
So what was it about Hand and Foot Reflexology that made it a quarter-century success story? When you look inside this book, you well see it is full of self-help technique descriptions and
illustrations. What really stands out to this author is that behind every word and every stroke of the illustrating pen is the power of an idea: The power of reflexology is the power of you. It’s in your hands to make a difference to your body, your health, your mood. You can create change in your own body, its tone, its tension level.
Readers seemed to like the approach. Hand and Foot Reflexology, A Self-Help Guide was the most stolen book at Planetree Health Resource Library—so they decided to offer it for sale. We had added so many drawings—2002 black and white line drawings—because we knew it would help those who spoke other languages. It worked as we saw at a book signing and demonstration in Farmington, New Mexico which borders the Navajo Indian reservation. An older Navajo lady dressed in traditional tribal garb of velvet blouse, full skirt and squash blossom necklace of silver and turquoise. walked in and sat down. She seemed to like the reflexology work. She bought a book commenting, Good. Pictures. As she was leaving she said The tribe wanted me to try the new medicine. I wanted to try the old medicine.
In the writing of this book two things collided. A self-help reflexology approach of just do it, just pick among the reflexology techniques and use the one that works for what you need. Then, there was how reflexology works. If there was a logical explanation, we felt readers would think Yes, reflexology is real and because it is real, it can help me.
Barbara and Kevin Kunz
http://www.reflexology-research.com
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Lots and lots of news
It has been the week for news.
The real good news is that Reflexology: Health at Your Fingertips is back in stock. It is available through Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
Complete Reflexology for Life is still out of stock (and going for ridiculous prices) but there is a paperback edition coming in on August 17th. The hardback edition isn't coming in until September 17th.
The Reflexology Path Kit is also coming into Barnes and Noble stores on September as well. Remember it is only being offered by Barnes and Noble.
Total Reflexology, the very popular kit from Barnes and Noble seems to be in good supply but stocks are dipping and it is hard to say whether it will be available for the holiday season. Total Reflexology ran out three weeks before Christmas and wasn't back into stock until March.
Both kits may be out before the holiday season is over with. So you might stock up as soon as you can.
Another kit is in the works. It should be out sometime in March of 2010.
And we are just waiting for the paperwork from Apple on the IPhone/ ITouch app (see illustration).
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Reflexology Remote Massages Your Hand While You Channel Surf
Gizmodo - Cool.con Reflexology Remote Massages Your Hand While You Channel Surf - Cool.com
Oh goody!!! A reflexology remote that massages your hand while you channel surf. Just what the world needed. Here is some of the copy that makes me shutter.
"This spiny little contraption has the unique ability to simultaneously control your TV and your chronic kidney, uterus or testicle-related ailments. This is truly a magical medical breakthrough product."
Imagine that. You can channel surf while taking care of your testicle-related ailments at the same time. With the other hand you could eat snack food. This is a truly magical medical breakthrough product. And I do stress medical and magical. It has FDA approval written all over it.
"The Cool.con universal remote employs reflexology to stimulate pressure points on the hand that are said to correspond to various areas of the body to promote better overall health. So the next time your partner bitches at you for watching too much TV, just tell them that you are engaged in a very serious medical procedure. Those witchdoctors said you needed dialysis—but you know better."
Okay so I finally figure this was not an official company statement but the blogging of a gadget fanatic on a review site for all things of a gadget nature. It is fun and got me going. Our thanks to Gizmodo- a gadget blog for the gag.
But does anyone seriously think that a combination remote and hand massager is a good idea. It simply ties a sedentary activity to a vibrating hand massager. I am in favor of vibration because it does break up patterns of stress. But on a remote???
Puzzling but I will steel myself for the next reflexology-exploitation. Maybe it will be a reflexology ice cream cone holder that massages your hand will you wolf down that Rocky Road ice cream. It couldn't hurt.
Monday, March 2, 2009
New German Edition of Hand and Foot Reflexology: A Self Help Guide
We had a full week. We had both an Italian edition of Complete Reflexology for Life and a German edition of Hand and Foot Reflexology: A Self Help Guide come through. I have to say while I am very fond of Hand and Foot Reflexology: A Self Help Guide and the illustrations and thoughts contained with in it, Complete Reflexology for Life is a stunningly beautiful book.
We think that makes 5 Italian editions of our books and five or six German books. We don't always get the word but sometimes mysteriously the books show up at our front door. The Italian edition came via the postman who said,"I have a bag of stuff for you." He was right it, felt like a bag of stuff. But inside were some really pretty editions.
The German edition, however, was less like a bag of stuff and more like a very utilitarian wrapping. We knew it was books.
Kevin Kunz
http://www.reflexology-research.com
http://www.dk.com/reflexology
Monday, January 12, 2009
A Tactic to Cut I.C.U. Trauma - Get Patients Up - NYTimes.com
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Thought this article from the NY Times was interesting. It is on the effects of being in ICU.
http://www.reflexology-research.com
http://www.dk.com/reflexology
Thought this article from the NY Times was interesting. It is on the effects of being in ICU.
"So now some I.C.U.’s are trying what seems like a radical solution: reducing sedation levels and getting patients up and walking even though they are gravely ill, complete with feeding tubes, intravenous lines and tethers to ventilators."
"Even a few days in an I.C.U. can be physically devastating immediately afterward, said Dr. Naeem Ali of Ohio State University. In a recent study, he and colleagues at three other universities reported that 25 percent of patients who had spent at least five days on ventilators could not use their arms to raise themselves to sitting positions. Many could not push back against a researcher’s hand."
A Tactic to Cut I.C.U. Trauma - Get Patients Up - NYTimes.com
One of their complaints about getting the patients up and walking is the amount of staff involved. Why not start with simple pressure to the bottom of the feet?
I remember reading years and ago that the Scottish had a pre-walking program for patients. They would apply pressure to the bottom of the feet of their patients prior to get them up and going. This is what the doctors are missing. It is pressure to the bottom of the feet that is important for helping to keep the body organized and on the road to recovery.
The services of a reflexologist would be beneficial on a number of different levels. I been in ICU a lot with very good results. People were out of ICU quicker than projected.
Also why not a mechanical contraption that would simply put alternating pressure to the bottom of the feet? They have devices for shifting the pitch of the bed to prevent bedsores. Why not something to apply pressure to the bottom of the feet? Simple.
The Russian years ago did a study where they kept people in bed for a year. Horrible things happened to the subjects. Teeth fell out. Bone density was lost. Widespread depression was rampant. Digestion went to hell and so forth.
We need some stress from weight-bearing to stay well. Pressure to the bottom of the feet could help do keep us well. In fact, why just use it just in ICU. All patients face a decline from being confined to a bed even if it is less than ICU patients. Then there are those confined to a wheelchair.
What other uses can you find for such a contraption? Would you have reflexologist come to see you if you were in ICU?
Kevin Kunz
http://www.reflexology-research.com
http://www.dk.com/reflexology
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Hand reflexology - Clearspring
Hand reflexology - Clearspring
We are closing in on a million hits on our Hand Reflexology Widget. Close to 3500 web sites, blogs, and social networking sites have put the widget on their sites.
Help us pass a million. Come see our Hand Reflexology widget. It is fun and the widget link leads to the great interactive charts produce by our publisher DK/Penguin. http://www.dk.com/reflexology
Learn reflexology the fun way.
Kevin Kunz
http://www.reflexology-research.com
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